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Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

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Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

Drawing on archival sources as well as her extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Dorothy L. Hodgson explores the ways identity, development, and gender have interacted to shape the Maasai into who and what they are today. By situating the Maasai in the political, economic, and social context of Tanzania and of world events, Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations.

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Indiana University Press

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025333909X

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Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

Introduction : positionings -- the cultural politics of representation, recognition, resources, and rights -- Becoming indigenous in Africa -- Maasai NGOs, the Tanzanian state, and the politics of indigeneity -- Precarious alliances -- Repositionings : from indigenous rights to pastoralist livelihoods -- "If we had our cows" : community perspectives on the challenge of change -- Conclusion : what do you want?

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0253223059

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Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

An analysis of the relationships between law, custom, gender, marriage and justice among northern Tanzania’s Maasai communities. When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania—from customary law to human rights—as specific forms of justice that often reflect elite ideas about gender, culture, and social change. Drawing on evidence from Maasai communities, she explores how the legacies of colonial law-making continue to influence contemporary efforts to create laws, codify marriage, criminalize FGM, and contest land grabs by state officials. Despite the easy dismissal by elites of the priorities and perspectives of grassroots women, she shows how Maasai women have always had powerful ways to confront and challenge injustice, express their priorities, and reveal the limits of rights-based legal ideals. “This is a book that only Dorothy Hodgson could have written, with her decades of work in Tanzania, vast networks in Maasailand, and deep ethnographic knowledge, combined with her deftness in working through more theoretical work on gender and human rights. Closely argued, conceptually sharp, and engagingly written.” —Brett Shadle, author of Girl Cases: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970 “Dorothy Hodgson asks a number of important and clearly articulated questions, and provides thoughtful answers to them using a hybrid of historical and anthropological methodologies that combine in-depth case studies with more empirically-informed macro-level reflection. A concise and useful resource in the undergraduate as well as the graduate classroom.” —Priya Lal, author of African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World “Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture makes a significant contribution to the study of law in East Africa and elsewhere among colonized peoples, and it should be required reading not only for academics interested in such matters but for activists and policymakers.” —American Anthropologist “Hodgson’s book is both rich in detail and broad in its implications for understanding struggles for justice for marginalised groups. It deserves the attention of students and scholars of African studies, anthropology, history, political science and women’s and gender studies.” —Journal of Modern African Studies

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The Church of Women

Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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The Church of Women

Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

In Africa, why have so many more women converted to Christianity than men? What explains the appeal of Christianity to women? What does religious conversion mean for the negotiation of gender and ethnic identity? What role does religious conversion play as a tool for empowering women? In The Church of Women, Dorothy L. Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. Building on her extensive experience with Maasai and the Spiritan missionaries, Hodgson explores how gendered change among Maasai has shaped women's notions of religious faith, religious practice, and spiritual power. Hodgson explores the appeal of Catholicism among women in East Africa, the enmeshing of Catholic practice with Maasai spirituality, and the meaning of conversion to new Christians. This rich, engaging, and original book challenges notions about religious encounter and the role of ethnic identity, female authority, and power among Maasai.

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Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

Once Intrepid Warriors explores the ways identity, development, and gender have interacted to shape the Maasai into who and what they are today. By situating the Maasai in the political, economic, and social context of Tanzania and world events, Dorothy L. Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations. Five profiles of Maasai men and women interspersed within the text bring Maasai voices to life and show that they were never passive witnesses to their own history."--BOOK JACKET.

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0253214513

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The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

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The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader explores different approaches to the study and conceptualization of gender, the value and limitations of gender as an analytic category, and the theoretical insights about gender produced by ethnographic research into the everyday lives, labors, loves, and livelihoods of people throughout the world. Why does gender "matter"? How are dominant ideas and practices of gender perceived, produced, experienced, and contested in different societies? How does ethnographic research provide access to these stories, perspectives, and experiences? What is the relationship between evidence and theory? The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader addresses these questions and more. Expertly edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson, this diverse reader includes both classical debates and relevant contemporary topics like gender-based violence and human rights.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania

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Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples' movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. Hodgson explores how indigenous identity, both in concept and in practice, plays out in the context of economic liberalization, transnational capitalism, state restructuring, and political democratization. Hodgson brings her long experience with Maasai to her understanding of the shifting contours of their contemporary struggles for recognition, representation, rights, and resources. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous is a deep and sensitive reflection on the possibilities and limits of transnational advocacy and the dilemmas of political action, civil society, and change in Maasai communities.

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0253000912

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The Church of Women

Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson,Professor Dorothy L Hodgson

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Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson,Professor Dorothy L Hodgson

Using her extensive experience with both the Maasai people and Spiritan missionaries, Dorothy Hodgson presents a gendered consideration of cultural change and the religious encounter among the Maasai.

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The Church of Women

Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

By: Dorothy L. Hodgson

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Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

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Book's by Dorothy L. Hodgson

Once Intrepid Warriors

Once Intrepid Warriors

Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

The Church of Women

The Church of Women

Once Intrepid Warriors

Once Intrepid Warriors

The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader

The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader

Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture

Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

The Church of Women

The Church of Women

The Church of Women

The Church of Women

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